Across the country, service workers in retail and delivery jobs are staging protests, organizing sickouts and even walking off their jobs. At any other moment, this kind of risky collective action among precariously employed, nonunion and low-wage workers would be surprising. But it is even more astounding in the middle of […]
Amazon fired a worker who organized a walkout at a New York warehouse to demand greater protection against the new coronavirus, saying the employee himself flouted distancing rules and put others at risk. The decision prompted a rebuke from New York Attorney General Letitia James, who called on the National Labor Relations Board to investigate. James said her office is also considering legal options […]
“A contentious union campaign by the staff of the progressive news network The Young Turks is growing even more combative,” writes Hamilton Nolan in In These Times. “[In early March], the union filed two separate unfair labor practice charges alleging that the company and its CEO… withheld wage increases and bonuses […]
Roughly 200 SAG-AFTRA members and staff rallied Thursday outside the Los Angeles offices of the Spanish Broadcasting System – the union’s latest gambit in its three-year-long campaign to secure a first-ever contract at the network’s Spanish-language radio stations La Raza and Mega. “We’re here fighting for SBS workers who have been […]
Top leadership at the progressive news network The Young Turks held an all-staff meeting at its office in Culver City, California, on February 12. The regularly scheduled gathering was supposed to deal with personnel matters, but instead the focus turned to the staff’s nascent union campaign, which had just gone public. […]
SAG-AFTRA will be taking its three-year-long labor dispute with the Spanish Broadcasting System to the streets next week. The union says its members will rally at noon Thursday outside the Los Angeles offices of SBS radio stations Mega and La Raza to pressure the company into negotiating its first contract with the union. […]
Technical employees at Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform popular with film and music producers among others, have voted to unionize with the Office and Professional Employees International Union, the OPEIU said Tuesday. The 85-member bargaining unit will affiliate with OPEIU Local 153 in New York. […]
Production and post-production workers at The Young Turks, the online network offering news from a progressive, left-leaning perspective, have organized a union through the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. TYT, founded in 2002 by chief on-camera personality Cenk Uygur, produces a variety of […]
IATSE has launched a campaign to unionize the production and post-production workers at The Young Turks, the left-leaning online news outlet that produces a variety of programs, including its flagship talk show, The Young Turks. The company was founded in 2002 by chief on-camera personality Cenk Uygur, who is running for the House seat vacated by former Representative Katie Hill. […]
“As a promising wave of organizing helps shift the narrative around labor unions in the US, recent polls suggest public support is at its highest rates in decades,” writes Beige Luciano-Adams in The American Prospect. “This follows a record year of strikes, in which teachers, hotel employees, and health care workers have turned local struggles into national movements. […]
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